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Is Minnesota’s cannabis program on the right track to carry a license lottery in 2024? Let’s do the maths.

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Prairie Island dispensary will offer early test for recreational cannabis sales closer to the Twin Cities

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Legislative auditor details what went improper with botched Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management hire

The report concluded that the governor’s office and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension failed to incorporate the state Department of Revenue in its checks into Erin DuPree’s background. Office of the Governor Gov. Tim Walz and his staff didn’t follow standard...

Law enforcement, state regulators to fulfill over cannabis flower loophole in Minnesota marijuana law

Hemp flowers in jars on display on the Asia International Hemp Expo 2023. Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/Sipa USA A loophole within the state’s latest recreational marijuana law allowing the sale of high-potency raw cannabis flower to go unregulated can be...

Olmsted County bans smoking, vaping cannabis in public

REUTERS/Tom Nicholson Welcome to the Glean, MinnPost’s twice-daily roundup of Minnesota news. Anthony Bettin at WCCO reports the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking and vaping cannabis in public places. Via Bring Me the News: Nearly a million...

‘A extremely chill place to hang around’: The Zen Arcade opens as first Minneapolis ‘rock & roll cannabis lounge’

Mark Walztoni, left, and Chris Mozena founded The Zen Arcade with Jesse Brodd. MinnPost photo by Jim Walsh After a protracted soft-opening last month, the brand new “rock & roll cannabis lounge” The Zen Arcade makes its official opening this week,...

DEED and weed: Loan to Missouri cannabis company just isn’t a done deal, says certainly one of state agencies overseeing the plan

Industrial Cannabis Growing under Lamps via Pexels One among two state agencies which might be within the strategy of making $20 million in financing available to a Missouri-based cannabis company said Thursday the loan just isn't final and that the agency...

‘We fought an extended battle to free the plants’: Minnesota cannabis businesses have a good time recreational marijuana legalization

It was a blazer, dude. With record 88-degree heat and a gradual haze of smoke hanging over the muddy event grounds, the annual Legacy Cup cannabis festival took to Surly Field Saturday afternoon.  The fourth edition of the local weedapalooza was...

With legalization of recreational cannabis, what does that mean from the medical marijuana in Minnesota?

Deep sales and discounts which were offered by RISE and Green Goods, above, since HF 100 was signed. Screen shot Patrick McClellan interrupted a home-improvement project to discuss what Minnesota’s latest recreational marijuana law does for medical cannabis patients like himself. What...

Real World Economics: Cannabis legalization and market forces

Edward Lotterman This month Minnesota begins the long strategy of regulating legal retail sales of cannabis. Jackpots of a billion dollars or more in multistate lotteries are within the news. So the challenge of managing goods and services that individuals need to...
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St. Paul prevails in legal fight to raze, replace historic Hamline-Midway Library

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St. Paul-based Securian Financial lays off 58 employees across departments

Securian Financial has notified 58 employees — roughly 2% of its total workforce — that their roles with the corporate are being eliminated in...

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum seeks thirteenth term in rematch with May Lor Xiong in 4th District

Longtime St. Paul Democratic U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is in search of one other term in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District and again faces May...

Believed to have been the oldest working nurse in Minnesota, Joyce Gimmestad retired at 88. She reflects on 7 many years in healthcare

Joyce Gimmestad hoped to succeed in 90 before retiring from being a nurse. Still, she retired on June 22, at 88, attributable to a...

Family of 83-year-old St. Paul man killed in hit-and-run: ‘We’ll forgive you. … Please turn yourself in’

For 30 years, John Bidon took each day runs around Lake Phalen near his St. Paul home. He’d stretch it out to 5 miles...